The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them.

The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Don't forget, you men don't know that I'm here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened …

When Marilyn Monroe got out of the game, I wrote something like, 'Southern California's special horror notwithstanding, if the world offered nothing, nowhere t…

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.